The women’s football management of the Swiss Football Association (ASF) is strengthening with a well-known face: Johan Djourou will take up the new position of sports coordinator of the women’s national team A from this Monday, July 1. In addition to his role with the national team, the former international defender will work as project manager for the “Footura+” impulse program as part of the Women’s EURO 2025 legacy.
“I am very happy and proud to join the staff of the women’s national team at this exciting time with the next Euro 25 in Switzerland,” said Djourou. I already had the opportunity to experience a Euro in Switzerland in 2008 as a player. I would like it to be a big celebration for everyone: the population, the supporters, our players and, above all, the young girls of this country who dream of seeing their idols. The goal is for this home Euro to leave a lasting impression for women’s football in Switzerland.
Swiss football fans will be familiar with Djourou, who played 76 times for the Swiss national team, scored two goals and appeared in three World Cup finals and two Euro finals.
At club level, he was under contract for nine years with Arsenal, then played for Hamburg, Sion and NE Xamax among others, before ending his career in 2021 at FC Nordsjælland in Denmark. Since then, Djourou has been coach of the FC Lancy U15 women’s team and a TV pundit for RTS and RMC Sport.
“We are very pleased that with Johan, such a remarkable personality, with experience at the highest level in the world of football, is joining us. We will thus be able to better position ourselves within the federation to promote the success of the national team, the individual encouragement of our national players as well as the heritage of WEURO25,” declared the director of women’s football Marion Daube. .
